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Robert Earl "Squirrel" Lester (August 16, 1942 – January 21, 2010) [1] was the second tenor in the Chicago-based singing group The Chi-Lites. Lester was born in McComb , Mississippi . [ 1 ] He was part of the original Chi-Lites line-up when the group (then named 'The Hi-Lites') were first formed in 1960 from two Chicago groups — The ...
The original members were lead singer Eugene Record, Robert "Squirrel" Lester, Clarence Johnson, Burt Bowen, and Eddie Reed of the Chanteurs. [3] The group was formed at Hyde Park Academy High School where majority of the members attended (Record attended Englewood High School and Thompson would later transfer to DuSable High School in his senior year and study music under Walter Dyett ...
Original member Robert "Squirrel" Lester died in 2010. [17] By 2011, Thompson was the last man standing from The Chi-Lites original lineup. He released the single, "Hold On To Your Dreams" on Mar-Ance Records. In 2014, while on the Soul Train Cruise, Thompson suffered a stroke after a performance with The Chi-Lites.
Robert "Squirrel" Lester – vocals; Creadel "Red" Jones – vocals; Eugene Record – producer, arranger, vocals; Willie Henderson, Quinton Joseph – directors; Thomas "Tom Tom" Washington, Sonny Sanders – arrangers; Bruce Swedien – recording engineer
Eugene Record, Marshall Thompson, Robert "Squirrel" Lester, Creadel "Red" Jones – vocals; Thomas (Tom Tom) Washington – piano; Arthur Hoyle, Raymond Orr, Murray Watson – trumpets
Robert "Squirrel" Lester; R. Eugene Record; Frank Reed (singer) W. Anthony Reynard Watson This page was last edited on 8 March 2010, at 08:33 (UTC). Text is ...
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A Lonely Man includes The Chi-Lites most successful single "Oh Girl", which topped both the pop and R&B charts and peaked at No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart, the eight and a half-minute epic "The Coldest Days of My Life" and a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)".